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Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick.

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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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